Chapter 46 Chapter 46: Is the Gap Between Him and Me Really This Big?
Chapter 46: Is the Gap Between Him and Me Really This Big?
Bang—!
After arriving at a spacious area near Boulder Town, Seele casually flung the scythe in her hand, stabbing it firmly into the ground. She placed one hand on her hip and turned to look at the three who had followed her.
"Perfect timing, there's no one around here. Let's set the battle location here then. I hope you won't disappoint me too much."
If these three were all bark and no bite, not only would she be unable to gauge how much she lagged behind Kevin, but the idea of helping them solve various problems would be even more absurd.
Usually, everyone hopes their opponents aren't too strong, but at this moment, Seele wished for them to be as formidable as possible.
"She doesn't look easy to deal with. Who goes first?"
After a quick glance, March 7th covered her mouth with her hand and quietly leaned in beside the other two. Little did she know, Seele not only heard this but also mercilessly rejected this seemingly fair proposal.
"No, all three of you come at me together."
Hearing this, March 7th was slightly taken aback and quickly asked, "...Are you sure you didn't misspeak?"
"Nonsense, of course I mean all three of you together. Stop dawdling. When you guys were still suckling at your mothers' breasts, I was already out there fighting for my life."
Seele's words showed absolutely no mercy, but there was no helping it. After all, in the Underworld, even if you just sound slightly weaker verbally, you could easily be marked as an easy target and attract a lot of trouble.
"Besides, shouldn't this be a good thing for you? As long as you can defeat me, even if it's three against one, I won't go back on my word or renege."
After all, her original purpose was to test the gap between her own strength and Kevin's. What would be the point of having them come one by one?
Furthermore, she was indeed very confident in her current strength.
"So what do we do now? Should we listen to her and attack together?"
March 7th whispered to her companions beside her. After a moment of thought, Dan Heng immediately responded: "Just as she said, fairness isn't important. Our goal was originally to save more people... And what if the opponent's strength is as exaggerated as that previous person's?"
The moment she thought back to their miserable state when facing Kevin earlier, March 7th immediately gulped and replied, "You... have a point."
"In that case, we're going to attack together then!"
Stelle loudly announced their decision. Only then did Seele finally smile with satisfaction.
"That's more like it. Dawdling doesn't look like fighting at all. Also, remember to be careful—"
Before her words finished, Seele's figure had already vanished from her original spot at some unknown time. The latter half of her sentence eerily sounded from behind them.
"—Because when I fight, I never know what holding back means!"
Bang————!
The scythe gleaming with a cold edge was swung down mercilessly but was blocked instantly by the keen-sensed Dan Heng. He even remembered to relay a message to his two companions.
"Stelle, March 7th, just like we discussed before, maintain the battle formation!"
"Received!"
"Understood."
Upon receiving the message, March 7th, holding her bow, immediately leaped backward to create distance. Stelle, on the other hand, charged forward, striking while Seele was still suspended mid-air with no leverage.
"Good coordination! Just a bit too slow!"
This theoretically unavoidable strike strangely missed. Seele merely borrowed a bit of force from Dan Heng's weapon. After leaping into the air, her entire person instantly turned into an afterimage. Moments later, an attack came swinging from another direction.
Bang—! Bang—! Bang—!
Seele's figure flickered continuously in mid-air like a butterfly. Only Dan Heng could barely parry these high-frequency attacks but found no opportunity to counterattack at all.
Therefore, he could only pin his hopes on his companions—
"Prepare for the worst-case scenario: the opponent can teleport unlimitedly within a small area to any corner!"
Fortunately, there was one thing to be thankful for: Seele's strength had clear traces to follow. If she were like that previous person who could knock them out of combat with a casual strike, what fun would there be?
"March!"
"Got it~"
The two were comrades who had fought side-by-side many times after all. With just a word and a glance, March 7th completely understood Dan Heng's meaning. She immediately raised her bow and aimed at the sky.
"Finally, it's this girl's turn to shine!"
As the ice-blue arrow was shot into the sky and exploded into a shower of ice clusters, Seele immediately realized something was amiss in the field and prepared to retreat to a distance.
"Too late... Torrential Rain!"
A fierce gale suddenly erupted from around Dan Heng, disrupting Seele's form. Immediately after came an impenetrable barrage of spear shadows rapidly thrusting towards her retreat path, forcing her to abandon her escape and instead swing her scythe to block the attacks.
Finally, just as Dan Heng began to gradually lose steam the next moment, countless sharp ice clusters began to rain down incessantly from the sky. In an instant, the originally relatively flat ground was turned into a honeycomb.
For Dan Heng and Stelle, protected by March 7th's shield, this sky full of ice clusters posed no threat at all. But Seele could only continuously leap and dodge amidst this overwhelming attack, seeking to minimize damage to herself.
After receiving the Stigmata's enhancement, her abilities and speed had indeed improved further. But her body was still that of an ordinary person after all; there were limits.
In this pure blue icy landscape, Seele's lavender movement trajectory appeared exceptionally clear. Her landing points also began to be not as unpredictable as initially but were consciously placed in areas sparse with ice clusters.
"3, 2... 1!!!"
As the final word fell, Dan Heng and Stelle, who had been closely observing Seele's movements all along, simultaneously launched attacks towards two different directions in an instant. After several leaps and shifts, Seele's steps were finally forced into such a dead end.
Bang—!
In the end, Stelle's baseball bat knocked aside Seele's scythe, successfully placing her weapon against Seele's fair neck.
"Very well, you've won."
Since a bet is a bet, Seele very straightforwardly dropped the weapon in her hand and conceded victory to the perfectly coordinated trio.
If any one of the three were missing, the coordination displayed wouldn't have been as perfect as just now. Seele was absolutely confident she could defeat them one by one.
But the fact was that the combined attacks of the three successfully forced her—who thought she held all the advantages—easily into a corner. Yet it's said that in front of Kevin, all three of them attacking together just meant each getting hit once—three hits total.
She was well aware there was definitely still a gap between herself and him... but... isn't this way too big?
(There is an illustration here; it can be viewed after updating the version.)
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